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How do bitcoins affect the transport industry of America?

SaaS Metrics

As a digital currency, Bitcoin has the potential to revolutionize the transport industry in America just as it has with other industries. There are many ways that people could potentially use bitcoin to improve the efficiency and transparency of the transport sector.

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Understanding the Benefits of SMS Payments For Transportation

Agile Payments

SMS payments, or “Pay by Text payments”, allow customers to pay for services or goods via a mobile phone text message. The customer typically receives a text prompting them to initiate payment via a website interface or additional text messaging.

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How is Tech Used in Shaping the Future of Logistics

SaaS Metrics

From tracking inventory to managing transportation routes, technology has played a key role in enabling logistics providers to deliver goods and services more efficiently and effectively.

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What next for HomeKit — into the office or factory floor?

IT World

I think there’s real opportunity in widening the remit of HomeKit to deliver more substantial benefits to product developers and home users, of course, but also to handle more sophisticated needs in offices, factories, transportation and elsewhere.

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MongoDB CTO On Working with Cloud Providers and Working in Southeast Asia

Andreessen Horowitz

He was most recently CTO of core technology and transport at Grab, a super-app serving Southeast Asia, and prior to that held leadership roles at Amazon Web Services and Oracle, among other places. MongoDB CTO Mark Porter has been on all sides of the technology industry.

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Investing in Silo

Andreessen Horowitz

Since Marc Andreessen declared it 10 years ago software has eaten so much of the world — transportation, real estate, communication, banking, and more.

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250+ No Cost Equality and Inclusion Passes Left for SaaStr Europa 2022!

SaaStr

Housing, transportation, etc. We’re gearing up for 2022 SaaStr Europa in-person again in sunny Barcelona , at the spacious muchly open air and outdoors convention center by the sea, 7-8 June!!

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The Next 30 Years of Geopolitics - What Could They Look Like

Tom Tunguz

He starts with an explanation of the importance of transport to trade. A country’s manufacturers benefit from low-cost transport. With all the breaking news every hour, I found myself looking for a longer-term perspective on the world.

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Apple, accessibility, and Project Titan

IT World

We think part of that work will involve building transportation for the world we’re going to live in , not the one in which we exist now. And it should be quite clear by now that the future of transport does not need to be the only invention the Project Titan team creates. We know Apple is working on a car. What is a car?

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The Startup Sectors Most Impacted by the Coronavirus

Tom Tunguz

If we tally the reductions by category, travel, retail, fitness, real estate, transportation, and recruiting constitute the top 6 categories. Which startup sectors are most affected by coronavirus?

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3 quick tricks for smarter Android sharing

IT World

But when you want to transport some text from your Android device to your Windows or Mac computer — or, Goog forbid, beam a non-photo file from your phone to a computer whose operating system doesn't rhyme with SchlomeOS — goodness gracious, it sure ain't easy.

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MongoDB CTO: Why On-Prem Software Is Still Big Business

Andreessen Horowitz

He was most recently CTO of core technology and transport at Grab, a super-app serving Southeast Asia, and prior to that held leadership roles at Amazon Web Services and Oracle, among other places. MongoDB CTO Mark Porter has been on all sides of the technology industry.

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The trillion-hour attention economy (and where the Apple Car fits in)

IT World

It’s more than just a car, of course, and when Apple does eventually begin to sell the vehicle it is spending billions to develop, we’ll find the future of transport is as different as the future of mobile phones turned out to be with iPhone.

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Zuora Announces the Launch of Zuora.org

Zuora

It can democratize access to industries like transportation […]. We believe that the Subscription Economy has the power to benefit everyone. The post Zuora Announces the Launch of Zuora.org appeared first on Zuora. ZEOLife Zuora News

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The Housing Market is Killing the American Dream

Andreessen Horowitz

When people move to cities, they exchange ideas, lower transportation and production costs, and create new breakthroughs. Forget the automobile or the iPhone. Cities, according to the economist Ed Glaeser, are our greatest invention. Today, that virtuous cycle has been … The post The Housing Market is Killing the American Dream appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz. fintech Uncategorized construction tech home ownership housing real estate

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My Quest for Speed - Learning to Use My Computer the Fastest Way Possible

Tom Tunguz

Create a file with neovim, write the name of another file, type the letters gf with your cursor over the file & you’ll be transported to it, just like that. Sometime in the winter of 2020, I read Dan Luu’s article on latency. “I’ve had this nagging feeling that the computers I use today feel slower than the computers I used as a kid.”

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Hipcamp

Andreessen Horowitz

Marketplace startups can simplify otherwise complex, disorganized ecosystems like transportation, hotels, groceries and others, and create wonderful businesses along the way. We have had a long history of making investments in strong marketplaces that connect buyers and sellers. They do … marketplaces announcements

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5 Interesting Learnings from Samsara at $500,000,000 in ARR

SaaStr

Growing beyond its initial market for fleets of vehicles in Transportation has been key to growth. Transportation was the first target market and remain its #1 vertical, but only 23% of total revenue — athough many of the other “verticals” are still fleets of vehicles.

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Remote work and the end of super-commuting

IT World

But the reality is that millions of workers super-commute every day because they live in over-priced, overcrowded cities with poor public transportation options. Years ago, my wife decided to take a one-year course in holistic health counseling.

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As frontline workers eye the exit, digital tools can aid staff retention

IT World

Despite recent concerns about a coming recession, many businesses still struggle to manage acute staffing shortages — particularly those supporting a substantial frontline workforce in the retail, hospitality and transportation industries. So employee retention has become a top priority.

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Applied Intuition

Andreessen Horowitz

We at a16z — and I personally — are excited to partner with Qasar Younis, Peter Ludwig, and the Applied Intuition team to build the first and most advanced software supplier to the global auto and transportation industry. Applied Intuition’s … autonomous cars & drones announcements

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What You Must to Know When Applying for a Loan at Omaha FCU

SaaS Metrics

Many of its people here are also part of the trade and transportation industries, which offer high salaries. Omaha boasts of being one of the most economically stable places in Nebraska. It is home to the country’s most number of billionaires, such as Joe Ricketts, Walter Scott Jr.,

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How to choose the best electric scooter

SaaS Metrics

However, electric scooters are considered an excellent means of transportation now a day. An electric scooter is a small vehicle that resembles a bike that is powered by electrical energy. There is no use of fuel or oil for an electric scooter to function.

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What is the best marketing automation software?

Net-Results

Do you need to transport 3 kids in your vehicle? Best value for who exactly? What are your use cases? What is your budget? Tell me this: what is the best value vehicle? That question can’t be answered without a lot more information. Do you need to move 2 tons of dirt with your vehicle? […]. The post What is the best marketing automation software? appeared first on Net-Results Marketing Automation. Quora Answers

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For better products, start with a problem statement

Intercom, Inc.

For example, various forms of transport deliver the outcome of getting from A to B quickly and comfortably. Consumers talk about what they want (faster transport) with reference to the current product, but by focusing on the need a new product (automobiles) comes into view.

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Impact startup repath raises 1.2 million and introduces its Climate Intelligence platform

The SaaS Garage

” The company’s Climate Intelligence platform can be applied accross multiple industries, such as utility, supply chain, real-estate and transportation. repath raises 1.2 million euros (view the original article at Startbase Magazin). Hamburg, December 14, 2022 repath.

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3 Reasons Why On-Demand Startups Need a CRM

Nimble - Sales

No matter which industry you come from (transportation, electronics, hospitality, or health care) the current situation clearly states the popularity of on-demand services almost everywhere. One of the surefire ways towards a successful business is catering to the on-demand services. If there is a demand for any particular service, you will surely end up finding […]. The post 3 Reasons Why On-Demand Startups Need a CRM appeared first on Nimble Blog.

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Implementing Microservices in NodeJS

Frontegg

NestJS supports several built-in transport layer implementations called transporters. The above code will create a microservice that communicates over the TCP transport layer bind to port 8875 on the local machine. What is a microservice?

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To Win in the New Delivery Economy Go to the Cloud – A Guest Commentary in E-Commerce Times

Think Strategies

This means revamping their transportation and logistics systems to meet their customers’ escalating delivery expectations. All you have to do to recognize the changing face of the consumer retail market is pay attention to the growing number of packages piling up on your neighbor’s front step. The explosive growth of the home delivery business also has been influencing the industrial, business-to-business world.

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All You Need to Know About Cross-Domain Identity Management (SCIM)

Frontegg

Transport Layer Security (TLS) is used to encrypt data for added safety. B2B ecosystems are becoming increasingly complex. System for Cross-domain Identity Management (SCIM), a set of application-level protocols, is helping securely manage and communicate user data across multiple domains.

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The Fastest Growing Areas of Startup Investment in 2015

Tom Tunguz

In addition, founders have raised capital to transform many of the fundamental industries: transportation, hospitality, lending, health insurance, and banking. Others, like transportation and hospitality, fueled by Uber and AirBnB fundraising efforts, command more than 6% of the billions invested in the last 12 months. Earlier this week, we examined the trends in the major categories of startup investment including eCommerce, Software, Social Networking and Education.

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29 Latin American SaaS Superstars

SaaStock

Neoway is targeted to serve a diverse range of industries, including transportation, consumer goods, construction, oil and gas, health and pharmaceuticals, technology, telecoms, banks, and insurance companies and brokers, among others. 99 , also known as 99Taxis, is a leading urban transport app coming from the Brazilian SaaS ecosystem. The Latin American SaaS landscape is hustling and bustling, having seen more IPOs in the last 6 months than the previous 20 years combined.

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Subscription60: Tuesday, February 26th

ProfitWell

SoftBank Funds Logistics We read through TechCrunch's transportation weekly and sniffed out this tidbit: SoftBank led a $1 billion dollar funding initiative in Flexport , a full-service air and freight forwarder. This isn't SoftBank's first time taking a dip in the transport/logistics pool, though. Transportation and logistics are massive markets that are being disrupted by technology.". Good morning subscription world. Abby here on February 26th, National Spay Day.

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I hate MVPs. So do your customers. Make it SLC instead.

A Smart Bear

Although not called SLC, there’s a popular meme in product circles that neatly encapsulates the idea of SLC in a diagram: The Modes of Transportation example from the Spotify product team: A skateboard is a SLC product. Zooming into one of our examples above, Snapchat took an SLC progression similar to the transportation metaphor.

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How Your Startup's Sector Affects Your Ability to Raise a Series A

Tom Tunguz

Search, transportation, finance and analytics startups have the best rates of Series A financing. Uber’s succcess has spawned a handful of similar businesses, driving the transportation category. The average seed stage startup has a 20% chance of raising a Series A according to Crunchbase data for IT startups who raised seed and Series A rounds between 2006 and 2013. But this figure varies significantly sector by sector.

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Incremental Innovation is Just As Powerful as Disruption

Tom Tunguz

The genuine progress in IT from the 1970s up to the 2000s masked the relative stagnation of energy, transportation, space, materials, agriculture and medicine. Significant innovation is occurring in fields like healthcare, transportation and agriculture. Transportation. Peter Thiel and Gary Kasparov wrote in the Financial Times about “Our dangerous illusion of tech progress”.

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A 47 Year Old Prediction Comes True

Tom Tunguz

From Google investing $100M behind Calico, a life extension research company to Khan Academy which extends high-quality education into the hands of hundreds of millions of people to Twitter which has become the mouthpiece of revolutions and countless others to SpaceX which has dramatically decreased the cost of space transport to Oxford Nanopore which sequences DNA on a chip the size of a USB drive, these products and the comprehensive designers behind them have benefitted mankind tremendously.

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Standing together: How Intercom customers are providing relief during COVID-19

Intercom, Inc.

From empowering teachers who need to move their classrooms online to providing free, safe transportation to healthcare workers to helping doctors remotely monitor their patients’ systems, these companies are doing amazing things.

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Norman Crowley on uncovering the business opportunities in tackling climate change

Intercom, Inc.

The use of the burning of fossil fuels for energy, the use of fossil fuels for transport, then animals basically. And if you solve those three problems, energy, transport, animals, and the use of animals for food, then you’ve solved climate change, ostensibly.

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5 disruptive forces that will transform the supply chain

DeepStream

They are faster and more accurate and could bring down transportation expenses by reducing labor costs. Let’s go invent tomorrow instead of worrying about what happened yesterday.”. Steve Jobs.